This breakthrough could multiply the precision of current GPS systems by a thousand ... were published in Nature Photonics. Traditional atomic clocks, although precise, use microwaves to measure ...

The satellites that make the GPS in your car and smartphone work consist of many atomic clocks. About 400 such atomic clocks ...

Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex ...

and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading and even space navigation.

One example of this type of sensor is an atomic clock, which goes inside electronic devices to provide the same sort of precision referencing as wireless GPS. They could eliminate the need for the ...

The plan is simple: to develop a more secure alternative to GPS by enabling the portable use of new atomic clocks, rather than relying on signals from satellites in space that can be jammed.

Worldwide time is then synced through a network of atomic clocks, enabling high-speed internet, GPS, space launches and other technologies that require incredibly precise timekeeping. And now ...

Atomic clocks in current GPS satellites will lose or gain a second on average every 3,000 years. ACES, on the other hand, “will not lose or gain a second in 300 million years,” says Luigi ...

How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is ...

X-ray ‘GPS’ unveiled by NASA. Because of these variations, the duo argue that it would be better to create a network of atomic clocks on the surface of the Moon – and in lunar orbit. This would ...

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those ...